Psychology Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Individual Differences in Verbal Fluency
(University of Kansas, 2009-07-13)Young adults, healthy older adults, adults with Parkinson's disease and adults with Alzheimer's disease were given a battery of cognitive tests and a series of verbal fluency tasks including tests of phonetic fluency, ... -
Implicit Self-Esteem in Adolescents with Parental History of Depression
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-30)Although low explicit self-esteem has been strongly linked to Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) as both a symptom of and vulnerability for the disorder, little is known about the relation between implicit self-esteem and ... -
The Influence of Negative Affect on Self-Referent Sentence Processing and Memory Performance
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-24)The current study investigated how a negative mood state affects lexical and sentence processing in individuals that have never experienced depression. Specifically, the goal of this research was to investigate how an ... -
"What Do You Really Think of Me?": The Role of Feedback-Seeking on Romantic Dating Relationships Among Depression-Vulnerable Women
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-16)The deleterious consequences of depression are often couched in terms of their impact at the individual level: for example, reduced quality of life, increased risk of suicide, and health problems. Nevertheless, depression ... -
AN FMRI STUDY EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF ACUTE D-CYCLOSERINE ADMINISTRATION ON BRAIN ACTIVATIONS AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING IN SPIDER PHOBIA
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-10)Specific phobias are among the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric disorders. Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) has become the treatment of choice for specific phobias, and is believed to operate on the basis of fear ... -
Intergroup and intragroup processing in self-stereotyping: The moderating effect of group status
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-01)The moderating effect of group status on intragroup and intergroup processing and self-stereotyping is examined. Self-stereotyping is "the perceptual interchangeability or perceptual identity of oneself and others in the ... -
Where has the time gone? The role of time lags in models for longitudinal data
(University of Kansas, 2009-01-01)The purpose of this dissertation is to draw attention to a long neglected, yet very important issue in the statistical modeling of longitudinal data. The issue can arise in any analysis in which one variable, measured at ... -
Identity Theft: Moral Antecedents, Moral Anger, and Impression Management
(University of Kansas, 2009-05-19)In two experiments (N = 162; N = 192) participants' reactions to identity theft are examined. Identity theft is defined as a situation in which a person intentionally appropriates distinctive characteristics of another ... -
The Development of Morphosyntax in Fragile X Syndrome
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-29)An objective of research in developmental disabilities is the comparison of language phenotypes. Disorders with similar symptomology, such as autism and fragile X syndrome (FXS) are of particular interest. One area of ... -
Parametric Bootstrap Interval Approach to Inference for Fixed Effects in the Mixed Linear Model
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-29)In mixed models, empirical best linear unbiased estimators of fixed effects generally have mean square errors (MSEs) that cannot be written in closed form. Standard methods of inference depend upon approximation of the ... -
Source Memory in Individuals with Subclinical Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
(University of Kansas, 2009-03-30)Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder often complain of poor memory and results of neuropsychological research have demonstrated impairments, particularly on tasks involving strategic processing. Past research has ... -
PERCEPTION OF RACISM IN AMBIGUOUS EVENTS: A CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY ANALYSIS
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-28)Previous research indicates that Black Americans are more likely than White Americans to think that racism still plays a role in current events. Mainstream accounts often explain these differences as the product of something ... -
The Associations Between Social Support, Economic Strain, and Parenting Stress Among At-Risk Families
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-28)This study tested the hypothesis that social support mediates the relation between economic strain and parenting stress using a sample of parents and caregivers (N = 151) of adolescents (ages 11-14) attending a six-week ... -
International relations, covert action and secret detention: The perceptual theory of legitimacy and government decision making
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-28)Governments are driven by a desire by to maintain their legitimacy, and so must take public perception into account in its decision making. We present four studies using the Perceptual Theory of Legitimacy (Crandall & ... -
Construction of Sexual Self-Image and Acquiescing to Sexual Pressure in a Sample of College Women: A Prospective Study
(University of Kansas, 2008-11-06)This study investigates the connections between giving in to unwanted sexual activity (USA) and self-esteem. There is evidence that USA relates to low self-esteem. Critiques of the concept of self-esteem have distinguished ... -
OMEGA-3 FATTY ACID SUPPLEMENTATION AND SLEEP
(University of Kansas, 2008-10-24)Previous research has found omega-3 fatty acid supplementation advantageous in reducing depressive symptoms. One of the central diagnostic symptoms of depression is sleep disturbance. Accordingly, this study was designed ... -
Type I error and power of the mean and covariance structure confirmatory factor analysis for differential item functioning detection: Methodological issues and resolutions
(University of Kansas, 2009-01-01)Recently, mean and covariance structure (MACS) confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) has been widely used to detect items with differential item functioning (DIF). Although how we define the scale does not impact overall model ... -
ESTABLISHING THE VALIDITY OF SHORT-FORM COMPOSITE ITEMS IN THE CONTEXT OF TEACHING EVALUATIONS
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)The current study seeks to demonstrate the validity of a short form teaching evaluation instrument that has been created to measure several dimensions of teaching effectiveness. The primary motivation for this study stems ... -
DO STRATEGIC PRIMING PROCESSES DIFFER FOR CATEGORY VS. ASSOCIATIVE PRIMING? AN EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS STUDY OF PROACTIVE EXPECTANCY STRATEGIES.
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)An extension of Becker's 1980 semantic priming study challenges the Verification Model by proposing that there are two different priming processes, one at a perceptual level and one at a semantic level. Participants performed ... -
Can a Long Term Perceptual Hypothesis Affect Visual Perception?
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)Visual masking is a psychophysical method commonly used to study visual information processing. Visual masking can be used to study the time course of visual information processing, but one of the limitations of this method ...